Poll: Americans Side With Democrats on Bush Tax Cuts

The American people are more in line with the White House than the GOP
and incoming House Speaker Rep. John Boehner in their opinion on how to
handle the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, according to a new CBS News poll.
Republicans argue that the midterm elections signaled a
demand by the American people to halt tax hikes and extend the Bush-era cuts to all Americans, but the CBS poll finds that 53 percent of
Americans want the Bush tax cuts extended only for households earning
less than $250,000 per year, as Democrats have proposed.

Only 26 percent of Americans support the GOP's proposal to extend the
cuts for all Americans and 14 percent say the cuts should expire
completely. The poll suggests that the Democratic-led House voted in
alignment with the American people yesterday when it voted to extend
cuts for those below the $200,000/$250,000 threshold.

From the poll:

Seventy percent of Democrats want to extend the cuts only on incomes
below $250,000. ... Forty-seven percent of independents and 41 percent of
Republicans agree. Only ten percent of Democrats and one in four
independents back the GOP proposal to extend the tax cuts for all. Even
among Republicans, support for extending all the cuts is less than half
at 46 percent.